uristjack
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- Feb 26, 2015
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Expired Domains = Free Content!
So, most of us I'm assuming have bought expired domains at some point or another. Anyone who hasn't, check out these guides here:
- How to find high DA expired domains for free! by macdonjo3
- How to choose expired domains by jackteam
A far more insidious, and in my opinion useful, method of extracting value from expired domains is finding content.
Yes. That's right. Content.
This website is how: The Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Lemme give you a quick run-down of this beauty. The Wayback Machine, is, according to the website themselves, a:
service that allows people to visit archived versions of Web sites. Visitors to the Wayback Machine can type in a URL, select a date range, and then begin surfing on an archived version of the Web. Imagine surfing circa 1999 and looking at all the Y2K hype, or revisiting an older version of your favorite Web site. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine can make all of this possible.
As such, we can use this little device to generate our content.
Here's how:
1. Find your expired domain, as per the guides above
2. Enter into the URL search bar "web.archive.org/*/(expireddomain.com)". If, for example, I was looking at the web archive of "blackhatworld.com", I would type in "web.archive.org/*/www.blackhatworld.com".
3. Voilà! You can now rip as much content as you desire!
Caveats
There are some caveats to this, however:- I would recommend spinning this content, and checking to see if it has been reproduced elsewhere on the net. Someone could have had the same idea as you!
- Not all sites will have content on them - according to the Wayback Machine, this may be because of:
- Robots.txt -- A site’s robots.txt document may have prevented the crawling of a site.
- Javascript -- Javascript elements are often hard to archive, but especially if they generate links without having the full name in the page. Plus, if javascript needs to contact the originating server in order to work, it will fail when archived.
- Server side image maps -- Like any functionality on the web, if it needs to contact the originating server in order to work, it will fail when archived.
- Orphan pages -- If there are no links to your pages, the robot won't find it (the robots don't enter queries in search boxes.)
